An asteroid near Mars has been named after Freddie Mercury
Suggesting that the iconic Queen frontman didn’t so much die back in 1991 as achieve his true form, The Guardian is reporting that an asteroid has now been formally identified as none other than Freddie Mercury—or it’s been named after him, at least, which is more accurate but a little less exciting. Queen’s Brian May, who already has an asteroid and a PhD in astrophysics, announced the news over the weekend in a video message at a big Freddie Mercury party in Switzerland celebrating what would’ve been Mercury’s 70th birthday. The asteroid was previously known as “asteroid 17473,” and it’s apparently a “3.5km-wide ball of black rubble on the other side of Mars” that was first discovered in 1991, which conveniently lines up with our theory about it really being Mercury’s new, cosmic form.